when I install gitlab-ce through docker on m1 mac mini, it stucks on gitlab::database::migrations

Question

this is my run commad:

sudo docker run --detach \
  --hostname localgitlab.com \
  --publish 9443:443 --publish 9980:80 --publish 9922:22 \
  --name gitlab \
  --restart always \
  --volume ~/gitlab/config:/etc/gitlab: \
  --volume ~/gitlab/logs:/var/log/gitlab: \
  --volume ~/gitlab/data:/var/opt/gitlab: \
  --platform linux/amd64 --privileged=true \
  gitlab/gitlab-ce:latest

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but it stops here

Recipe: gitlab::database_migrations

  * ruby_block[check remote PG version] action nothing (skipped due to action :nothing)

  * rails_migration[gitlab-rails] action run

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I'm not sure if I can use a m1 mac as a gitlab server?

And I set up gitlab successful on my inter chip mac.

Anybody knows the reason?

Answer 1

There is a post in Gitlab forums discussing this but there is no solution.

The only solution I found so far is to use the yrzr/gitlab-ce-arm64v8 image instead of the official GitLab one. This image is built with arm64 compatibility and released at the same time as the official image.

A similar image with the EE version of GitLab is here gsdukbh/gitlab-ee-arm64, it is maintained but it doesn't contain all the versions.

BTW, this is my docker-compose.yml tested on a Mac M1 if you want to give it a try:

version: "3.4"
services:
  gitlab:
    image: 'yrzr/gitlab-ce-arm64v8'
    restart: always
    hostname: 'gitlab.local'
    container_name: gitlab-ce
    privileged: true
    depends_on:
      - postgresql
    links:
      - postgresql:postgresql
    environment:
      GITLAB_OMNIBUS_CONFIG: |
        postgresql['enable'] = true
        gitlab_rails['db_username'] = "gitlab"
        gitlab_rails['db_password'] = "gitlab"
        gitlab_rails['db_host'] = "postgresql"
        gitlab_rails['db_port'] = "5432"
        gitlab_rails['db_database'] = "gitlabhq_production"
        gitlab_rails['db_adapter'] = 'postgresql'
        gitlab_rails['db_encoding'] = 'utf8'
        external_url 'http://gitlab.local'
    ports:
      - "8080:80"
      - "8043:443"
      - "8022:22"
    volumes:
      - ./gitlab-config:/etc/gitlab
      - ./gitlab-logs:/var/log/gitlab
      - ./gitlab-data:/var/opt/gitlab
  postgresql:
    restart: always
    image: postgres:13.6-alpine
    container_name: gitlab-postgres
    environment:
      - POSTGRES_USER=gitlab
      - POSTGRES_PASSWORD=gitlab
      - POSTGRES_DB=gitlabhq_production
      - TZ=America/Bogota
      - PGDATA=/data
    volumes:
      - ./gitlab-db-data:/data
    ports:
      - "5432:5432"